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West Bengal’s Bishnupur Authorities Exploit the Silent Stigma Attached to Leprosy Patients
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For more than 40 years, residents of a leprosy colony in West Bengal’s Bishnupur, are living without any benefits from the government.
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Leprosy Continues to be a Reason for Discrimination in Uttar Pradesh
While India claimed to be leprosy-free in 2005, a family from Bhawanpur Chauthar village, Uttar Pradesh is still facing discrimination due to leprosy.
Ostracised Again: Leper Colony Demands Sanitation
On a winding walk between rubble and an overflowing drain dotted with plastic that never decomposes, lives Sabita Kaushali in Patia Village’s Leper colony. Forgotten by the rest of the world, the families are forced to live in unsanitary conditions. Patia is not really a village, it is a semi...